Hive Blight in Early Access
Hive Blight — a roguelike strategy about insect armies and hands-off, planning-first battles — is available now on Steam and early impressions from reviewers look positive for players who like tactical, low-AFK control schemes Hive Blight impressions Steam early access listing.
OptizOnion formally launched Hive Blight into Early Access on March 9, 2026 store.steampowered.com, pricing the game at $9.99 with a 20% introductory discount that ends March 16, 2026 store.steampowered.com. The Early Access build lists "Currently" as 3 Clans, 30+ unique characters, 3 Chapters, 30+ Equipments, 30+ Trinkets and 9 map destination types, and the store page projects about a year in Early Access for further expansion store.steampowered.com. Player response on Steam is labeled "Very Positive" with 57 user reviews and a 94% positive score on the store listing store.steampowered.com; independent previews from LadiesGamers and VulgarKnight also praised the game's planning-first, hands-off autobattler approach in early impressions ladiesgamers.com. OptizOnion ran a demo during the Tiny Roguelike event from January 31 to February 14, 2026, and the studio says Early Access exists to gather player feedback for balancing and new content — the team announced the demo will be removed from Steam now that Early Access has launched gamespress.com.
